Hacker News with Generative AI: DOS

Spice86 – A PC emulator for real mode reverse engineering (github.com/OpenRakis)
Spice86 is a tool to execute, reverse engineer and rewrite real mode DOS programs for which source code is not available.

Reverse Engineering, Emulation, DOS, Software, Programming

84 points by alberto-m 3 hours ago | 14 comments

Pocket386 Retro DOS Computer 386SX-40Mhz (tindie.com)
Pocket386 Retro DOSComputer 386SX-40 CPU DOS Computer Hand386 upgrade

Retrocomputing, Hardware, DOS, Computers, DIY

32 points by AlexeyBrin 5 days ago | 7 comments

Snake Game in 56 Bytes (github.com/donno2048)
This is an x86 snake game made for DOS, but there is also a version that requires no BIOS, bootloader or OS.

Programming, DOS, Game Development, Retro Computing, Code Golf

138 points by birdculture 39 days ago | 12 comments

B800 Text (shikadi.net)
B800 Text is a text-mode screen dump, and under x86 real mode (such as used by DOS) can be copied byte for byte into video memory starting at B800:0000, causing the data to appear on the screen when the video card is in text mode.

Computer Graphics, Operating Systems, DOS

3 points by susam 43 days ago | 0 comments

Computer Cousins: The Atari ST and DOS PCs (goto10retro.com)
In 1984 when the Atari ST hardware was being finalized, there was a need to get an operating system on it.

Retro Computing, Atari ST, DOS, Operating Systems, History

28 points by rbanffy 45 days ago | 8 comments

DOS live USB image with tools for writers (dreamwidth.org)
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DOS, Operating Systems, Writing Tools

30 points by LorenDB 49 days ago | 9 comments

I thought I found a bug (os2museum.com)
So I was working on improving a DOS emulator, when I found that something seemingly trivial wasn’t working right when COMMAND.COM was asked to do the following:

Operating Systems, DOS, Emulators, Programming

125 points by MBCook 57 days ago | 25 comments

DOS APPEND (os2museum.com)
For a long time, I couldn’t quite grasp what the DOS APPEND command could possibly be good for. Until I came across a situation which APPEND was made for.

DOS, Operating Systems, Command Line, Retro Computing, Software

119 points by SeenNotHeard 62 days ago | 56 comments

A Year of WordHopper – Modern DOS Game Development Retrospective (kokoscript.com)
At the start of 2023, I decided to set a resolution for myself: release a game project. Didn't matter how big or small, it had to be something.

Game Development, Retro Games, DOS, Programming, Personal Projects

66 points by thunderbong 81 days ago | 2 comments

Revisiting the DOS Memory Models (blogsystem5.substack.com)
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?

DOS, Programming, Memory Management, x86 Architecture

182 points by mooreds 89 days ago | 101 comments

James Gleick's Chaos: The Software (github.com/rudyrucker)
This is a free release of the source, manual, and executables of a 1991 Autodesk DOS program that was called "James Gleick's CHAOS: The Software."

Software, Programming, History, Retro Computing, DOS

266 points by signa11 96 days ago | 33 comments

Microsoft LISP (edm2.com)
A LISP interpreter for DOS marketed by the Microsoft Corporation in the 1980's, it is actually a licensed version of muLISP that omits the compiler but is otherwise mostly identical.

Programming Languages, History, Microsoft, DOS, LISP

27 points by copx 139 days ago | 4 comments

DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support (github.com/joncampbell123)
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

DOS, Emulation, Retro Gaming, Open Source, Software

99 points by Fission_Strike 140 days ago | 41 comments

Revisiting the DOS Memory Models (blogsystem5.substack.com)
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?

Operating Systems, Programming, History, DOS, Memory Management

8 points by thunderbong 142 days ago | 2 comments

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (int10h.org)
The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles - preserving raster typography from pre-GUI times:

Computer Fonts, DOS, Retro Computing, Typography

124 points by OuterVale 144 days ago | 15 comments

A "hello world" program in machine code on DOS (uninformativ.de)

Programming, Operating Systems, DOS, Assembly Language, Low-Level Programming

24 points by zdw 144 days ago | 13 comments

DOStodon MS-DOS Mastodon Client (github.com/SuperIlu)

DOS, Mastodon, Software, Programming

7 points by Bluestein 171 days ago | 0 comments

DOS's Last Stand on a Modern ThinkPad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel 10th-Gen Core CPU (yeokhengmeng.com)

DOS, Laptops, Hardware, Operating Systems, Retro Computing

10 points by yeokm1 186 days ago | 2 comments

WordStar for DOS 7.0 Archive (sfwriter.com)